However, I encountered blotchy artifacts / posterization when editing DNG’s and on the exported copies (screenshot provided)

Details have been enhanced to better show this. I uploaded the RAW into Lightroom on my laptop to confirm it wasn’t an issue with the file or camera, pulling the shadows and checking an exported version.
Any idea why this is happening? Thanks.
Also, would this have anything to do with compressed RAWs? The RAWs imported were compressed.